TRANSPORT TECHNIQUES AND ECONOMICS
cod. 01031

Academic year 2007/08
3° year of course - First semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Trasporti (ICAR/05)
Field
Ingegneria ambientale e del territorio
Type of training activity
Characterising
45 hours
of face-to-face activities
5 credits
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course unit
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Learning objectives

The course aims to give the theoretical basis for studying the main transportation systems. A particular attention is paid to design according to safety criteria for transportation infrastructures of urban and national road network, to railroads design, to transportation policy, planning and development.

Prerequisites

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Course unit content

1. ROAD, VEHICLE, USER<br />ƒ{ Resistances to motion<br />ƒ{ Locomotion mechanic and general equation for traction<br />ƒ{ Longitudinal and transversal drag factor<br />ƒ{ Perception of road environment<br />ƒ{ Classification according to effective provisions laws in force<br />ƒ{ Roads constituent elements<br /><br />2. CLASSIFICTION AND DEFINITION OF ROADS<br />ƒ{ Classification according to effective provisions laws in force<br />ƒ{ Roads constituent elements<br />ƒ{ Vertical signs and pavement markings<br />ƒ{ Road lighting<br />ƒ{ Guardrail barriers<br />ƒ{ Urban roads characteristic and traffic control safety devices<br /><br />3. ROAD CROSS-SECTION DESIGN<br />ƒ{ Traffic issues and traffic indexes<br />ƒ{ Speed, flow and traffic volume<br />ƒ{ Road capacity in conditions of uninterrupted flow<br />ƒ{ Road cross-section design using Highway Capacity Manual method<br /><br />4. ROAD INTERSECTION<br />ƒ{ Notes and types of intersections<br />ƒ{ Visibility in intersection at grade<br />ƒ{ Types of itersections at grade and design of constituent elements<br />ƒ{ Delay phenomena in traffic<br />ƒ{ Mechanism of queue forming<br />ƒ{ Calculation of the length of accumulation zones<br />ƒ{ Design of exchange zones<br />ƒ{ Roundabouts<br />ƒ{ Traffic analysis for roudabouts<br />ƒ{ Calculation and design of a roudabouts with large and medium diameter<br />ƒ{ Grade separations and interchanges<br />ƒ{ Types of interchanges<br />ƒ{ Intersections with traffic signals<br />ƒ{ Classification of signalized intersection<br />ƒ{ Calculation of traffic signal cycle<br /><br />5. MOBILITY<br />ƒ{ Notes, transportation costs <br />ƒ{ Transportation system as supply to the demand<br />ƒ{ Dimensions of mobility demand<br />ƒ{ Evaluation of current demand by mean of studies <br />ƒ{ Zoning and studies<br />ƒ{ Prevision of future demand<br />ƒ{ Design principles and the use of analytical models<br /><br />6. THE URBAN TRAFFIC PLAN<br />ƒ{ City traffic planning<br />ƒ{ Notes and goals of Urban Traffic Plan<br />ƒ{ Investigation for traffic control and parking area<br />ƒ{ Origin-Destination studies and parking studies<br />ƒ{ Organization and regulation of parking <br />ƒ{ Interventions and technical guidelines<br /><br />7. TRAFFIC CALMING TECHNIQUES FOR URBAN AND NATIONAL ROADS<br />ƒ{ Traffic control devices<br />ƒ{ Pedestrian safety<br />ƒ{ Cycling road and cycle safe facilities (geometry, norms and materials)<br />ƒ{ Level of service design pedestrian crossing streets<br />ƒ{ Road lighting design<br />ƒ{ Vertical signs and pavement markings<br /><br />8. RAIL TRANSPORTATION<br />ƒ{ The rail track gauge<br />ƒ{ Gauge widening in curve<br />ƒ{ The dynamic of motion along curves<br />ƒ{ The superelevation of the outer rail of the curve<br />ƒ{ Compensated and not compensated acceleration<br />ƒ{ Superelevation ramp<br />ƒ{ Railway alignment<br />ƒ{ Horizontal and vertical alignment<br />ƒ{ Notes about design of railways<br />ƒ{ Railway timetable<br />ƒ{ The rail design<br />ƒ{ Railway alignment in tunnels<br />ƒ{ Circular curves and alignment<br />ƒ{ Parabolic curves<br />ƒ{ The railway structure<br />9. INTERMODAL TRANSPORTATION<br />ƒ{ Design and organization of intermodal area<br />ƒ{ Unimodal and intermodal transportation<br />ƒ{ Structures of intermodal area<br />ƒ{ Economical intermodality<br />ƒ{ Intermodal station<br />ƒ{ Notes about logistics of transport <br /><br />10. DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION OF TRANSPORTATION PLANNING OPTIONS<br />ƒ{ Evaluation criteria<br />ƒ{ Financial analysis and economic analysis<br />ƒ{ Benefit-cost analysis<br />ƒ{ Multimodal analysis<br />ƒ{ Definition of goals and objectives achievements matrices<br />ƒ{ Problems of multimodal analysis<br /><br />11. TRANSPORTATION AND MANAGEMENT OF DANGEROUS GOODS<br />ƒ{ Dangerous goods: identifying and classification<br />ƒ{ Relative hazard for individual goods<br />ƒ{ Hazard labels and vehicles characteristics<br />ƒ{ Cisterns for transportation<br />ƒ{ Logistics of dangerous goods<br />ƒ{ The advisor for transportation safety<br />

Full programme

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Bibliography

Lessons notes given to students.<br />- De Luca M., Tecnica ed Economia dei Trasporti, CUEN, Napoli, 1990.<br />- Ferrari P., Giannini F., ¡§Ingegneria Stradale ¡V Geometria e Progetto di Strade¡¨, ISEDI, 1999.<br />- Vicuna G. ¡§Organizzazione e tecnica ferroviaria¡¨, Ed. CIFI, Collegio Ingegneri Ferroviari Italiani, Roma, 1993.<br />- Giuliani F., ¡§Interventi di ingegneria delle infrastrutture per la sicurezza delle strade in esercizio¡¨, Provincia di Parma.<br />

Teaching methods

Written and oral examination.

Assessment methods and criteria

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Other information

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